Tom Cruise reveals his secret to dealing with social anxiety
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Let's face it, Tom Cruise is, and always will be one of the best actors of our generation. From Mission Impossible, Top Gun, and Jerry McGuire, Tom Cruise has always delivered action packed performances that have left us speechless. While he's widely recognized as one of the greatest of all time, he's certainly has his fair share of obstacles to overcome, including social anxiety. It's hard to imagine someone like Tom Cruise struggles with anxiety right? Well, even Maverick Mitchell is considered human, and he's given us the secret to overcome mental obstacles.
Now, Hayley Atwell, who played a big role in the most recent Mission Impossible movie, got to know Tom Cruise on a profound level during the project.
Atwell has always been an advocate for mental health, and she's been extremely vulnerable and open regarding her struggles with social anxiety.
Recently, Hayley Atwell made herself available to the media and Hayley Atwell recalled a "pep talk" from Tom Cruise that helped her during even the most impossible of missions.
Hayley Atwell describes Tom Cruise' advice
According to People Magazine, After defining social anxiety as something that can happen in a "new environment," "work situation" or "friend situation," Atwell, 42, revealed the tip that Cruise, 62, gave her to overcome it.
"If you walk into a room and you feel the anxieties coming, and it makes me want to retreat into myself, and I start to overthink and I start to go, 'Do I look weird? Do I seem awkward? I'm not speaking, I'm just muffling my words or I need something to do to numb me from this,' we go into ourselves," Atwell said. "And he said, 'Try doing the opposite.' "
"Try to look out, look around the room and go 'Where is it? Where is the thing that I have attached on to my insecurity,'" Atwell recalled of Cruise's advice. "'Is it that person over there that reminds me of my school bully? Is it that person over there that didn't give me a job once? That person over there that I think was mean to me once? Where does it live outside of me and where do I feel like the source of it might be coming from?'"
All I can say is...wow!
Tom Cruise is already one of the most beloved actors in showbiz, but the fact that he took the time to guide Atwell through her struggles speaks volumes of his character.
Source: People
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